Colin Jennings
Department of Political Economy Phone: 44 (0) 20 78482948 King’s College London email: [email protected] London,WC2B 4BG, UK
Current Position Reader in Political Economy, King’s College London (from 2018; Senior Lecturer 2013-18)
Previous Positions Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Strathclyde (2011 -2013, Lecturer 2007- 11) College Lecturer in Economics, the Queen's College, University of Oxford (2002 - 2007) Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Southampton (2001 – 2002) Lecturer in Economics, University of Portsmouth (1996 – 1998)
Education PhD in Economics, University of Southampton (1998 – 2002). Political conflict and constitutional reform - (ESRC Studentship 1998 – 2001) MA in Economics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario (1994 – 1995). BSc (Econ) in Economics, Queen’s University Belfast (1989 –1992)
Publications Articles 1. Social capital, conflict and welfare (with Santiago Sanchez-Pages), Journal of Development Economics; 2017, 124, 157-167. 2. Expressive voting and two-dimensional political competition: an application to law and order policy by New Labour in the UK (with Stephen Drinkwater), Constitutional Political Economy; 2017, 28, 79-96. 3. Group support for political violence: The role of emotions and expressive choice in creating conflict or providing peace, Defence and Peace Economics, 2016, 27, 404- 422. 4. Domestic violence and football in Glasgow: Are reference points relevant? (with Alex Dickson and Gary Koop), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78, 1-21. 5. Collective choice and individual action: Education policy and social mobility in England, European Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 40, 288-297. 6. A study of expressive choice and strikes (with Christa Brunnschweiler and Ian MacKenzie), European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 34, 111-125. 7. The good, the bad and the populist: A model of political agency with emotional voters, European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27, 611-624. 8. Expressive political behaviour: Foundations, scope and implications (with Alan Hamlin), British Journal of Political Science, 2011, 41, 645-670. 9. Intra-group competition and inter-group conflict: An application to Northern Ireland, Defence and Peace Economics, 2011, 22, 63-84. 10. Civil conflict, federalism and strategic delegation of leadership (with Hein Roelfsema), Journal of Peace Research, 2008, 45, 557-573. 11. Political economics and normative analysis (with Iain McLean), New Political Economy, 2008, 13, 61-76. 12. Who are the expressive voters? (with Stephen Drinkwater), Public Choice, 2007, 132, 179-189. 13. Leadership and conflict (with Alan Hamlin), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, 64, 49-68. 14. Political leadership, conflict and the prospects for constitutional peace, Economics of Governance, 2007, 8, 83-94. (also published as World Bank, Research Working Paper, WPS 4196) 15. Group formation and political conflict: Instrumental and expressive approaches (with Alan Hamlin), Public Choice, 2004, 118, 413-435. 16. An economistic interpretation of the Northern Ireland conflict, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1998, 45, 294-308
Book Applying the dismal science: When economists give advice to governments (co-edited with Iain Mclean), 2006, Palgrave Macmillan.
Book chapters and reviews Expressive Voting (with Alan Hamlin) in Congleton, R., Grofman, B. and S. Voigt (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Oxford: OUP, 2019. Institutions and prosperity: A review of Besley and Persson, Pillars of Prosperity and Acemoglu and Robinson, Why Nations Fail. European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 29, 252-258.
Invited Presentations 2019 University College Cork 2018 University of Strathclyde; Radboud University Nijmegen; Workshop on Ideology and Identity (University of Groningen); Nottingham Trent University 2017 University of Roehampton 2016 Brunel University; Advances in the Economics of Conflict (Stockholm School of Economics) 2015 University of Portsmouth 2014 University of Bayreuth; University of Manchester (Conference in honour of Alan Hamlin) 2013 University of Swansea; University of Duisburg-Essen 2012 University of Leicester 2011 University of Aberdeen; Center of Economic Research (ETH, Zurich); Queen’s University Belfast 2010 Radboud University Nijmegen; University of Dundee; University of Stirling; 2009 University of Surrey; WZB Berlin; University of Portsmouth; 2008 University of Edinburgh; Scottish Institute for Research in Economics Forum (Stirling) 2006 University of Warwick (Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation); DTI - Economics for Analysts (Southampton) keynote speech (with Iain McLean) 2004 University of Oxford; University of Liverpool
Conference Presentations 2019 European Public Choice Society Meeting (Jerusalem); Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy 2018 European Public Choice Society Meeting (Rome) 2017 European Public Choice Society Meeting (Budapest) 2016 Public Choice Society Meeting (Fort Lauderdale); Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy 2015 European Public Choice Society Meeting (Groningen); European Political Science Association (Vienna) 2014 Public Choice Society Meeting (Charleston); European Public Choice Society Meeting (Cambridge); CESifo Venice Summer Institute Workshop on Behavioural Political Economy; Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy 2013 European Public Choice Society Meeting (Zurich); New Directions in Welfare III (OECD, Paris) 2012 World Congress for Public Choice (Miami); Scottish Economic Society (Perth); Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy 2011 European Public Choice Meeting (Rennes); Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy 2010 Public Choice Society Meeting (Monterey, USA); Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy 2009 Workshop on ‘Memory in Economics’ (Institute of Advanced Study University of Strathclyde); Public Choice Society Meeting (Las Vegas); Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy (Pontresina, Switzerland) 2008 Public Choice Society Meeting (San Antonio, Texas); International Society of New Institutional Economics (Toronto) 2007 World Congress for Public Choice (Amsterdam); Warsaw International Economic Meeting 2006 International Institute for Public Finance Congress (Paphos); International Network for Economic Research Conference (Cork) 2005 Public Choice Society Meeting (New Orleans); European Public Choice Meeting (Durham) 2004 Public Choice Society Meeting (Baltimore); European Public Choice Meeting (Berlin) 2003 Public Choice Society Meeting (Nashville); European Public Choice Meeting (Aarhus). 2002 European Public Choice Meeting (Belgirate, Italy) (Funded by a Royal Economic Society Conference Grant) 2001 European Public Choice Meeting (Paris).
Reviewing for Journals and Funding Bodies American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Civil Wars; Comparative Political Studies; Constitutional Political Economy; Defence & Peace Economics; Economia Politica; Economic Inquiry; Economics; Economics of Governance; Economies; European Journal of Political Economy; International Game Theory Review; Japanese Journal of Political Science; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties; Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Mobilization; Oxford Economic Papers; Peace Economics, Peace Science & Public Policy; Public Choice; Review of International Organizations; Scottish Journal of Political Economy; West European Politics Leverhulme Trust
Teaching Experience 1st year Principles of Economics; 2nd year Political Economy; Quantitative Methods; Microeconomics; Economics of Politics; Economics of the Public Sector (King’s) Nominated for KCL Teaching Excellence Award 2014 & 2016 1st year Economics; 3rd Year Public Economics; MSc New Institutional Economics; Public Policy and Public Finance (Strathclyde). Nominated for Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Award 2010, 2012 & 2013 1st year Introductory Economics and Mathematical Methods; 2nd and 3rd year Microeconomic Theory; Applied Microeconomics; Public Economics (Oxford). 2nd year Applied Microeconomics; Economics of the Environment (for 1st year non- economists); Economics of the European Union for 2nd year Modern Languages (Southampton). 1st Year Economics; Introduction to Quantitative Methods; 2nd and 3rd year International Trade; Economics of the Public Sector; History of Economic Thought; European Industrial Organisation (Portsmouth).
Departmental Responsibilities Programme Director for BSc Economics (2017 – present) Programme Director for BA/BSc Political Economy (2013 – 2016) Deputy Head of Department (Strathclyde 2013). Dissertation Coordinator (Strathclyde 2009 - 2013) First Year Coordinator (Strathclyde, 2007 – 2013) Honours Coordinator (Strathclyde, 2009 – 2012) Admissions Tutor for Economics & Management (Queen’s College Oxford, 2003- 2007)
External Responsibilities Member of the editorial board for the European Journal of Political Economy (2014 - present) Member of the Executive Board of the European Public Choice Society (2011 – 2014) External Examiner for Manchester Metropolitan University (2018-2022) External Examiner for University College Cork (2017-2021) External Examiner for University of Ulster (2013-2017) External Examiner for University of Portsmouth (2009 – 2014)